Magazine for tickets



Oct. 23, 1928.

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Patented Get. 23, 1928.

UNITED STATES PAUL GAGNEAU, OF PARIS, FRANCE.-

YMAGAZINE FOR TICKETS.

Application filed March 18, 1926, Serial No. 95,689, and in France April 3, 1925.

This invention relates to magazines for tickets to be used in following the movements of railway cars.

In prior devices of this kind, railway cars have been equipped with a pair of ticket boxes placed at each end of the car, each box con taining a certain number of tickets bearing the nuinber of the car, its special characteristics and whatever other information desired. A ticket taken from one of these boxes and sent to the central control o'tlice immediately gives the information necessary to trace the various movements of the car. This system, however has one very serious disadvantage. When all the tickets have been removed from the boxes-and this frequently happens when the car is at some distance from its basethere is no convenient means for resupplying the boxes or for otherwise continuing the.

ticket system of control. The present invention aims to remedy the above mentioned disadvantage by'means ot a specially contrived ticket-box having both a replaceable and a reserve magazine therein. The invention aims further to so arrange the replaceable and reserve magazines that neither of these can be easily removed, tampered ith or destroyed by malicious persons. The invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which 1 shows an elevation of the device.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the replaceable ticket magazine. a:

Fig. 3 is a section through line 33, liig 1, showing the box containing a supply 01 tickets.

Fig. 4 is a section of the replaceable magazine taken on line l l, Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is another section of the replaceable magazine taken on line 5-5. I

ll 6 is a section through the magazine lock taken through line 6, Fig. 4.

Fig. 7 shows a control ticket to be used with the box.

Turning to the drawings (i represents a rectangular box having a removable front closure 7). Closure b is hinged to the top of the box and has lateral extensions or aprons for protecting the box against rain and snow. The box is attached to the railway car by means of screws 0. The box is arranged to receive a replaceable magazine cl consisting of l a U-shaped steel band which fits against surfaces a at the back of the box so as to cover screws 0 and prevent the latter being tam- .pered with. The lateral branches of member (Z are bent at (Z so as to fit into recesses a? formed in the walls of box a. The magazine is held firmly in place by its own elasticity and by the interengagement of the bulged portions (Z in recesses a Tickets are attached to magazine (Z by means of the longitudinal. bar 6 and the bolts 7 passing through the ticket perforations. Bolts f are preferably arranged so that the nuts which hold them in place face the back of box a. This arrangement prevents bar 0 and bolts f being removed from the front of the box. Magazine (Z is locked in position preferably by screw clamps h mounted on the lateral walls of boX a in housings 71, the clamps being so located that they clear band (Z when they are loosened by key 2' The magazine is in this manner, locked in the box and can be removed only by the person properly authorized to remove it.

To permit reprints to be made of the tickets at any place, a die j (Fig. 3) is mounted with one of the ticket piles on one of the bolts f. The die thus mounted cannot be removed without taking magazine cl out of the ticket box.

In the event that the supply of tickets attached to bolts f becomes exhausted and it is desired to renew the supply immediately, a supplementary ticket magazine 76, fixed to the back of boX a by bolt Z, is provided. This reserve magazine 70, it will be noted, cannot be reached without removing magazine (Z. It serves to supply control tickets during the intervals in which a new supply of tickets is being printed from die 7' for the main magazine (Z. Preferably, for reasons to be explained later the tick'cts in magazine 7; are made up in a different color from those in magazine (Z.

From the foregoing description, it will be clear that the ticket box here provided can carry a supply of control tickets under all ordinary conditions. Whenever the main magazine is exhausted, it is removed and a new supply of tickets is struck off from die at the station where the car happens to be, reserve magazine is supplying tickets until main magazine (Z is refilled and replaced.

If the magazine (Z is not replaced before the car leaves a given station or if, for any reason, a new supply of tickets is not printed, the movements of the car can be recorded on tickets taken from reserve magazine 70. Tickets from the latter magazine, on reaching.

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the central office,-since they are of a special colorgive notice of the condition of main magazine (Z. A fresh magazine may therefore be immediately despatched from the "central office to replace the one which is deficient.

What I claim is 1. In a ticket control device, the combination of a box, areserve ticket magazine connected to the rear wall of said box, a detachable main ticket magazine located in the front of the box and having detachable means for holding tickets, said detachable means being connected to the rear of said main magazine by fastening means non-accessible at the front of said main magazine, and at the rear of the rear wall of said box, and locking means adapted to hold said main magazine in position.

2. A ticket control device comprising a box, a reserve ticket magazine connected to the rear wall of said box by fastening means detachable only at the front of said rear Wall, a removable front main ticket magazine having a rear wall fitting over said reserve ticket magazine and having ticket holding means connected thereto, by fastening means detachable only behind the said rear wall of said main magazine, and locking means for holding said main magazine in position.

3. In a ticket control device, the combination of a box,a U-shaped member fitting within the said box, a ticket clamping bar associated with said U-shaped member, bolts adapted to hold tickets between the rear wall of the said U-shaped member and the said ticket clamping bar, nuts associated with said bolts behind the rear wall of the said U-shaped member, and locking means adapted to engage the said U-shaped member and to lock it in position in the box.

4. In a ticket control device, a box, a ticket magazine fitting into said box, said magazine comprising a ticket supporting frame and means for clamping tickets onto said frame, and clamping means engaging with said ticket supporting frame and operable to clamp the magazine in the box.

5. In a ticket control device, the combination of a box, a reserve ticket magazine, a U- shaped member fitting over said reserve magazine, a ticket clampingbar, means for clamping tickets between said clamping bar and said U-shaped member and means for locking said U-shaped member in the box.

6. In a ticket control device, the combination of a box, a reserve ticket magazine, a U- shaped member fitting over said ticket magazine, a ticket clamping bar, a bolt for clamping tickets between said clamping bar and U- shaped men'iber and a screw clamp attached to the box and operable to clamp the U-shaped member over the reserve ticket magazine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto my hand.

PAUL GAGNEAU 

